"Eat the bread,
you will have life.
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Eat My flesh,
you will have life.
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Drink My blood,
you will have life."
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The evidence is our willingness
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to hear and
obey the Word of God,
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especially since we
realize this is God speaking.
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This is not an ordinary book
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we are talking
about this morning,
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this is the word of life.
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This is the Word of God.
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We are in His presence.
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The Holy Spirit's
ability to inspire.
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Happy Sabbath.
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Happy Sabbath.
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Great spirit here.
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Yesterday morning
I was praising God,
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and we have more
people here this morning
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so we should be rejoicing.
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And we learned yesterday,
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but the Holy Spirit has inspired
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which means
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God breathed into His word
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and it became the living
word or the word of life.
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This is not just
the word about God,
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this is the word of God.
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When you read His word
and eat it or act upon it,
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you come into the very
presence of God Himself
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and God is privileged
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in the process of
becoming a part of you.
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It's getting better.
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I know from experience
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if I say something
three times up here,
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you get a rousing response.
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I'll leave it at
two for this morning.
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So this morning we're
going to be speaking about
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because this whole
week is dealing with
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the Holy Spirit's
ability to inspire
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and this morning
we're going to be speaking
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about His ability
to Inspire A Movement.
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Open your Bibles to
Revelation Chapter 12,
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Revelation Chapter 12.
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Let's hear the
wrestling of those pages.
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That's why I love people to
bring Bibles to my meetings,
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it gives me courage to
see the word being opened
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and it's not all just
up there on the screen,
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but we can actually
open our Bibles and use them.
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Now it's an interesting
chapter Revelation 12
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because there is a
woman in Revelation 12
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and what kind of woman is she?
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Is she a virtuous woman
or is she is a harlot woman?
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She is a very virtuous woman.
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And we have
these contrasting women
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in Revelation.
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And a woman as you well know
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is the prophetic
symbol of the church.
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So this is a
virtuous woman so we recognize
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but because she is crowned
with the crown of 12 stars,
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she is standing on the moon
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which is a reflection of
the light coming from the sun.
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Whenever you see the
symbolism in prophecy
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sun, moon and stars,
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you are looking at the symbol
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of God's true people.
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We get all hung
up on the fact that
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there might be some
signs in the heaven,
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it's the symbol
of God's true people,
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the sun, moon, and stars.
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And by the way if one
of those seven trumpets
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is addressed to the
sun, moon and stars,
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you better believe
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it's addressed to the
true last day people of God.
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It's a message for them.
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So in Revelation 12,
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we have a pure woman
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and the interesting thing to
me is there are three phases,
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three phases of the woman.
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There's only one woman
but she has three phases,
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and the good
news this morning is
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they don't miss
this in 6,000 years.
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Allow yourselves to
hear this, this morning.
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In 6,000 years
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God has only
reached down three times
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and raised up a man,
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called Him and powered Him
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and build around
Him a great movement.
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It's only happened three times
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in 6,000 years.
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And there is no fourth movement
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in Revelation 12.
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There's only three.
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The first of those
movements you can read it,
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the beginning of Revelation 12.
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"A sign appeared in heaven,
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a woman clothed with the
sun, the moon under her feet,
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and on her head a
crown of twelve stars."
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The symbol of the sun by the way
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is a symbol of the
righteousness of Jesus.
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He is called the
Rising of the Sun
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in Scriptures.
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It's a beautiful symbol.
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"And she was with child
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and she cried out being in labor
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and in pain to give birth."
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Now if you read
on down to verse 5,
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"She gave birth to
a son, a male child
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who is to rule all
nations with a rod of iron,
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and her child
was caught up to God,
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and to his throne."
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And we have long
recognized this symbol
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of the first
movement that God raised up
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that which brought forth
the child was which people.
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It was Israel, of
course it was Israel.
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That's why she has 12 stars,
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a crown of 12 stars.
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Israel, the first
movement that God raised up.
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He called Abraham,
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the first man to be
called to head up a movement
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and had they been faithful,
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we would all be
going to Jerusalem today
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to find out the
truth of the one true God.
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But you don't
quite encounter that
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when you go to Jerusalem today
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because they fell into apostasy,
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and I won't go into the
history of Israel today.
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But this was the first
movement that God raised up
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and it must have
been a very tragic thing
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for Jesus to
actually say in His day
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"I have taken
the kingdom from you,
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and I'm giving it to a people
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who were once not my people."
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Let those words
penetrate this morning.
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You can never presume
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to remain the beneficiary
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of all of God's
grace and blessings
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unless there is a willing
heartfelt response to the love
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that He has
manifested towards you.
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In other words we
cannot take God for granted.
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It's not enough to
have quotes the truth,
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we have to know
God, the only living God.
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Is there an amen to that?
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Amen.
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And so God breathes down.
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Here we have
Abraham coming into focus.
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So God raised up
another man 2,000 years ago,
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probably a little more
illustrious than Abraham
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because he had some
incredible beginnings.
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Who am I referring to?
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Jesus of course, Jesus.
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And the movement
that Jesus raised up,
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Christianity.
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Let me put--
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let's remain
consistent here, Christianity.
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And you can read about
that in the same chapter.
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The followers of Jesus
became known as Christians
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and in Revelation 12:6,
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"The woman fled
to the wilderness,
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where she had a
place prepared by God,
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so that there
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she might be
nourished for 1,260 days."
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This is historically
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we know that
this is an application
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to the Middle Ages church
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which fled into the wilderness
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and eventually
fell into apostasy
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and Christianity
became hopelessly divided.
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You know the devil loves
to divide the people of God.
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You know that, don't you?
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Tell how harder it's to
find a unified church today.
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I was in a
unified church recently
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for the first time in years.
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I had a mild heart
attack while I was there,
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the shock was too great for me.
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I said, "There's got to be
some disunity in this church."
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Somebody said,
"We don't have any.
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We just love one another."
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I said, "It's too--
too much for me to handle
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coming to a church like this."
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The devil loves to
divide God's people
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because he knows if he
can successfully do that,
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that God will never be
fully manifested and revealed
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in most people.
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And the third
movement in Revelation 12.
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Look at the end of the chapter
and you all know this so well,
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that's one of our
favorite passages,
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Revelation 12:17.
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By the way, the ending
of that period of 1260 years
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was what year?
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1798 so this third movement,
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I'm gonna just put it
up here, it's post 1798.
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Whatever, whoever
this third movement is,
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it arises after 1798.
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After the church has
gone into the wilderness
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and only a remnant is left,
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then we see the
beginning of a new movement
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and here it is
described in verse 17.
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"The dragon was
wrath with the woman
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and went to make war with...
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the remnant of her seed
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who keep the commandments of God
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and have... the
testimony of Jesus."
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And we got a whole meeting
on this later in the week.
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We gonna be shocked
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by the
understanding of the testimony
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of Jesus that comes out.
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The word testimony by
the way is the word witness.
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It's the Greek word Martyreon.
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It's the root of the word
martyr, interestingly enough.
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So here is the final movement.
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They are only a remnant,
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the rest or the
remnant of her seed.
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And interestingly enough
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there is a church on earth today
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which lays claim
to being this remnant,
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I'm wondering if
you've ever heard of it.
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What does it call itself?
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Calls itself
Seventh-day Adventist.
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That's what it calls itself.
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And I'm
challenging you this morning
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what right do we
have to lay claim,
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not be the remnant church
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but perhaps to be
the remnant people
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who are part of
this remnant people.
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And that's where I'm
leading you this morning
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because this is only been
three times in 6,000 years
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has God raised up a people.
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The first two
movements fell into apostasy.
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I'm expecting apostasy
by the way in our own ranks.
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There's only one
movement left on earth
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that could go into apostasy
and we happen to represent it.
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So some big things are coming,
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I'm already
encountering apostasies
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all around the country.
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I've never strike
a period in my life
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when such weird
ideas are coming forth.
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People walk up to
me, I've got fresh light.
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I said, well, I can
hardly wait to hear it.
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Oh, you know,
Jesus is not really God.
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I said, well, thank you
for sharing that with me.
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Oh, the Holy
Spirit is not a person
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or unless you keep the
Jewish weeks of festivals,
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you won't be saved.
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And I say, thank you so much
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for sharing this
new light with me
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and just reach for
my antidepressants.
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I'm speaking about in
Seventh-day Adventist churches
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I'm hearing all this.
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What gives us the
right to lay claim
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to being the true people of God,
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so I have researched
this very, very strongly.
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You know, what I have found out.
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These three movements
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were all given the
same message by God.
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I mean the exact same message.
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There's only one
message they all have in common.
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That's not 27
points of doctrine either.
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There's one teaching
that they all have in common
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which sets them up hot
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because there is
only one biblical teaching
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which contains the
complete plan of redemption,
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and that is the teaching of...
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the sanctuary, of
course, Cedius, thank you.
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It's the
teaching of the sanctuary.
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It's the only
teaching in the whole Bible
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that contains the
complete plan of redemption.
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We happen to
know that even though
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the cross is the most marvelous
demonstration of God's love,
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it's not the end of the journey.
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It was the
entrance into the sanctuary
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where God completed
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the ongoing process of salvation
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in the lives of His
children... the sanctuary.
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The one message that
they all have in common.
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Once I began to realize this,
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I started looking much more
seriously at our own movement.
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And the claims that we have made
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and I began to question myself
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why are we hearing so little
about the sanctuary today.
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It's our only
distinctive teaching,
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did you know that.
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It's our only
distinctive teaching.
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It's probably a
true thing to say
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that it's the only old landmark
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that we have that's
unique to ourselves.
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Everything else we teach
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we got other
people who believe it,
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but the sanctuary is
unique, it sets you apart.
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Was it present in Israel?
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Exodus 25:8, you
know it well, I'm sure.
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Let them make me a sanctuary
that I might dwell among them.
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And the term sanctuary
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did not only have
reference to a building,
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it had reference to a
people in whom God would dwell.
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Thank you very much.
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You're on a roll this morning.
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Praise God.
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Praise God, it's
one of those occasions.
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It's an incredible thing to see
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that the sanctuary not
only had reference to a tent,
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it actually had
reference to the people
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who came to that tent
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and God was trying to teach them
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that I plan to indwell you.
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So the sanctuary
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becomes a huge thing, huge.
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I'm going to draw
it up here briefly.
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The courtyard, the holy place
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and the most holy place.
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There's three
sections in the sanctuary.
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There's a courtyard
and out here was the altar
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of burn sacrifice and the laver.
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We have the sacrifice here.
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As the blood was
taken through daily,
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this was the place
of daily ministry here.
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Daily, let that word sink in.
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Daily.
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I'm going to just write it here
so you don't forget it, daily.
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And there're three articles
of furniture here remember,
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there is a table of showbread,
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the seven golden candlesticks
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and there is an
altar of incense.
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In the daily
ministry we have oil,
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we have bread
and we have incense.
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And those three items
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oil, bread, incense
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all have something in common.
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That's why they
are used symbolically
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in the daily ministry.
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Remember the blood is taken in
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and sprinkled here
on this altar and here.
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Everyday the blood was taken in.
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The blood of
atonement is taken in here
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because blood is the
great symbol biblically of life,
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not death, of life.
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It's to teach us
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that if you embrace
the atoning death of Jesus,
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you now, have access
to His marvelous life.
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I'm gonna repeat that again.
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I don't do well with
feebleness, you know that.
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If you have embraced
the atoning death of Jesus,
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that is the doorway
to His marvelous life.
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Amen.
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Whenever I meet somebody
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who is not experiencing victory,
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they're not rejoicing
with the living Christ in them,
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I have to bring
them back to the cross,
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so that they can stand
there and look at the cross
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and actually look up
and say to the Father,
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thank you for lifting from me
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through the
atoning death of Jesus
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all my guilt,
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all my condemnation,
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all my judgment
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and all my second death.
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All of that has
been lifted from me
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and placed on Jesus Christ
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who did not deserve it,
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but He did it to free me up
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so that I might now
daily experiencing Him,
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experience Him indwelling
me through the Holy Spirit.
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I can actually have
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an intimate delightful walk
with Jesus every single day,
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but I've got news
for you this morning
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if you're
carrying the burden of sin,
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the guilt, the condemnation,
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it will crush you.
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If you're in fear of judgment
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and you haven't realize
it's already fallen on Jesus.
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If hellfire and the second death
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are terrifying to you
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and you haven't realized that
you already died that in Jesus.
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You will not be free
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to enjoy the daily
walk and intimacy with Him.
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It's all about our
relationship with Jesus
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and the cross was
designed to lift from us
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all the burden of
guilt and condemnation,
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so with hearts up
lifted and strengthened,
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we can now look
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to the living
Christ coming into us
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as the blood was carried
in here every single day.
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So what are these
three things have in common?
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Oil, incense and bread.
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They're all symbolic of Christ
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but how did they
become what they are
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so they can be
used in the sanctuary.
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How did we get oil
and what it did do?
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How did we get
bread and what it did do?
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And how do we get
incense and what it did do
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as a function?
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Oil produced life, yes.
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But I'm looking at
these as basic elements,
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not symbolically at the
moment, as basic elements.
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I saw your lips moving
and nothing coming out.
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You're giving me symbolism,
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I'm looking at them as symbols,
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they're much as basic elements.
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They were all crushed.
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Thank you very much.
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In order to obtain
them, they're crushed.
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The oil is crushed.
The grain is crushed.
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The incense is crushed.
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In order to perform
their God given function,
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they're crushed and
then having been crushed,
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they're then...
it came out yesterday
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not as clearly but it came
through in yesterday's meeting.
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Having been
crushed, they're rolled in...
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They're life giving if
you bring in the right word.
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Who said life giving?
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What word came out
yesterday that supports that?
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Jesus spoke about the
bread but unless you eat it.
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So these things are all crushed
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but then they
have to be consumed
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or else they do not produce
their life giving impact,
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they have to be consumed.
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And then you can move
into the symbolic relevance,
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the Holy Spirit, the
bread, the word of God,
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the ministry of intercession
of Jesus Christ Himself,
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all becoming an
internal part of us daily.
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This is how the living
Christ brings Himself into us
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through the word,
anointed by the sprit,
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all undergirded with
beautiful intercession.
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He makes Himself
available to His children.
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This sanctuary is
an incredible picture.
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Incredible picture.
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Every little symbol
is significant, isn't it?
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Every little
symbol is significant.
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I mean take the candlesticks.
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The oil flows down
the central pipe here
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which Revelation says
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is actually a
picture of Jesus Himself.
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It flows out into the branches
where the wigs were made from
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the dirty discarded
undergarments of the priest.
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Torn into strips, soaked in oil,
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they bring forth light.
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And who is standing in
the middle of candlesticks
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in Revelation?
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Jesus.
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All that light is
reflecting on Jesus.
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It's a magnificent
picture in Revelation.
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The dirty
garments soaked in oil,
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transformed into producing light
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which reflects Jesus.
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What a message that
is and what a profound,
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that's the message of course
of righteousness by faith.
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So here we're having
the daily ministry of Jesus
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where growth takes place.
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This is where growth
takes place on a daily basis.
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Here is the sacrifice
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which leads to
growth in the life
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and what's left in
the most holy place?
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What furniture?
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The Ark of the Covenant
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which contains
the Ten Commandments
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among other things and
the mercy seat above it.
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The mercy seat above it.
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The two symbols by the way
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of the justice
and the mercy of God.
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The Ark of the Covenant
with the Ten Commandments,
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the justice of God and
the mercy seat above it,
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justice and
mercy coming together.
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We have long seen that
this is the place of judgment.
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Well, I have news
for you this morning
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and we'll deal with this
later in the week as well.
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For too long now, we
have had the wrong focus
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in talking about the
investigative judgment.
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We ought to have the
focus on God instead of on man
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because our judgment
has already fallen on Jesus.
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Let's bow our head
together this morning.
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Father in heaven,
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what a gracious
and mighty God You are.
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We can hardly comprehended
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how generous You've been
in offering Your Son Father,
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as an offering for sin,
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and then making
His beautiful life
00:26:59.91\00:27:01.72
available
through the spirit daily,
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and then choosing
to glorify Yourself
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through the most
miserable of species.
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We can hardly comprehend
00:27:11.06\00:27:12.79
but in our hearts we feel a deep
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and abiding gratitude today
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and we plan with
Jesus in us today
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to spend our whole
Sabbath just glorifying you.
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Thank you in
anticipation for the hope
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that lies within us
today in Jesus' precious name.
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Amen. Amen.
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